Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries

Decadent

  • Ernest Dowson

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    FOBLC member Mike Guilfoyle is campaigning to get Lewisham council to recognise one of its most remarkable residents by naming a street after Ernest Dowson. Here Mike writes about the ‘decadent’ poet who lies buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, with a bottle of absinthe by his grave to keep him company. One of…